Building

ABSTRACT

The building of the present invention includes a wall making a boundary of a room, an inner wall formed by a group including first and second tubular structures and arranged on the wall as one body, and an air conditioner arranged in the room. The first tubular structure has a first ventilation hole, where gas blown into the first tubular structure from the air conditioner and passed through the first tubular structure with substantially no leakage is blown out, at a to-be-arranged position of a first storage equipment which is to be arranged in the room. The second tubular structure has a second ventilation hole, where the gas blown into the second tubular structure from the air conditioner and passed through the second tubular structure with substantially no leakage is blown out, at a to-be-arranged position of a second storage equipment which is to be arranged in the room.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a building having a roof and walls, ofwhich the internal temperature is controlled. Priority is claimed onJapanese Patent Application No. 2010-264477, filed Nov. 29, 2010, thecontent of which is incorporated herein by reference.

BACKGROUND ART

Generally, a content, such as an electronic equipment running hot duringits operation or a food going worse at the normal temperature, is storedin a storage equipment (e.g., a cabinet or a rack), and the storageequipment is arranged in an air-cooled building (e.g., a warehouse or acontainer, etc.). The content may be frozen by lowering the temperatureset for the air-cooled building according to circumstances. Then, inorder to adjust the temperature appropriately for cooling or freezingthe content effectively, various improvements have been made in an innerwall of the building.

For example, a building has been developed, of which all of the innerwall surfaces (i.e., the inner wall surfaces of the floor and theceiling are included) are covered with heat insulation materials, inwhich the content is arranged on T-shaped rails to make the content keptapart from a bottom surface of the building in order to decrease thevalue of the heat conducted from the outside of the building as much aspossible, and in which the flow of cold air from an air conditionerinstalled inside the building is improved by using the T-shaped rails(refer to Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-90660 andJapanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-253492).

Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-90660Patent Document 2 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-253492SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention

The buildings in the Patent Documents are able to feed the cold air tothe lower part of the content as well. However, because the airconditioner feeds the cold air to the entire bottom surface of thebuilding or to a wide space formed in the building, the cold air isdispersed. Therefore, the building is insufficient for the cold air tobe used to cool the content effectively.

Thus, for example, a rubber tube may be used, which is connected to asupply opening of the air conditioner to feed the cold air to thecontent directly. However, in this case, because the rubber tube is nota part of the building itself, the building may become complicated touse. Further, the rubber tube may be an obstacle in the traffic lineduring carrying the content in the building or during carrying out ofthe building.

The present invention has been made in view of the above situation. Abuilding, according to the present invention, includes an inner wallstructure used for controlling the temperature of the content intofocusing on the content, and the inner wall structure is a part of thebuilding.

The building of the present invention includes a wall making a boundaryof a room, an inner wall formed by a group including a first tubularstructure and a second tubular structure and arranged on the wall as onebody, and an air conditioner arranged in the room. The first tubularstructure has a first ventilation hole, where gas blown into the firsttubular structure from the air conditioner and passed through the firsttubular structure with substantially no leakage is blown out, at ato-be-arranged position of a first storage equipment which is to bearranged in the room. The second tubular structure has a secondventilation hole, where the gas blown into the second tubular structurefrom the air conditioner and passed through the second tubular structurewith substantially no leakage is blown out, a to-be-arranged position ofa second storage equipment which is to be arranged in the room.

Thereby, the plurality of tubular structures foamed integrally with thewall can be used to guide the gas blown from the air conditioner to theto-be-arranged position of the storage equipment.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a buildingwhich has an inner wall structure capable of controlling the temperatureof contents to be stored in a concentrated manner, while the inner wallstructure is a wall surface of the building.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic view (perspective view) of a firstembodiment of a building according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic view of an inner wall structure for thebuilding of FIG. 1. That is, FIG. 2( a) illustrates a plan view in whichan XY plane of the floor is viewed to the −Z direction, FIG. 2( b)illustrates an XZ sectional view of the building with taken along theline A-A′, and FIG. 2( c) illustrates a YZ sectional view of thebuilding with taken along the line B-B′.

FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic view of an inner wall structure for amodified example of the building of FIG. 1. That is, FIG. 3( a)illustrates a plan view in which an XY plane of the floor of themodified example is viewed to the −Z direction, FIG. 3( b) illustratesan XZ sectional view of the modified example with taken along the lineC-C′, and FIG. 3( c) is a YZ sectional view of the modified example withtaken along the line D-D′.

FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic view of an inner wall structure of abuilding of the second embodiment. That is, FIG. 4( a) illustrates aplan view in which an XY plane of the floor of the building of thepresent embodiment is viewed to the −Z direction, FIG. 4( b) illustratesan XZ sectional view of the building with taken along the line E-E′ ofthe building of the present embodiment, and FIG. 4( c) illustrates a YZsectional view of the building with taken along the line F-F′ of thebuilding of the present embodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

According to the embodiments of the building regarding the presentinvention described later, an inner wall formed by a group of tubularstructures closely arranged, is set on one side of at least one wallamong all walls including a roof as one of the walls. The walls of thebuilding is arranged to make an airtight room in the building. Then, byeach of the tubular structures, gas or air blown from an airconditioner, which is put in the room of the building, is selectivelyguided to the predetermined positions corresponding to each of storageequipments stored in the building, and is focused to the predeterminedpositions.

Hereinafter, the embodiments are described in detail with reference tothe drawings.

FIRST EMBODIMENT

FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic view regarding a building 1 of the firstembodiment. FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic view of an inner wallstructure of the building of FIG. 1. When the rectangular coordinates inFIG. 1 are used, FIG. 2( a) illustrates a plan view in which the XYplane of the floor is viewed to the −Z direction, FIG. 2( b) illustratesan XZ sectional view of the building with taken along the line A-A′, andFIG. 2( c) illustrates a YZ sectional view of the building with takenalong the line B-B′. Hereinafter, in cases that the rectangularcoordinates are described in drawings, all of them are the same.

The building 1 of the present embodiment includes walls 2, that form thebuilding, that make a boundary of the inside of the building(hereinafter, referred to as a room) and that make the room hermeticallyclosed with a door (not shown), and an inner wall 3 arranged on one sideof at least one wall among the walls 2 as one body. In this embodiment,because the building is substantially rectangular in shape as oneexample, the wall 2 is formed on all six sides of the rectangularparallelepiped.

In other words, there are six walls 2 in total, two of that have an XYplane respectively, two of that have an XZ plane respectively, and twoof that have a YZ plane respectively. However, the door or the like isarranged to a part of the walls 2 instead of the material of the part.

The inner wall 3 is set on one side of the wall 2, which is inside theroom. Here, regarding the six surfaces of the walls 2, the inner wall 3is set on a wall 2 (hereinafter, this wall is referred to as a“floor-part wall”) where a force of the gravity of the contents or theweight of the contents is supposed to be applied, in the case that thecontents are arranged in the room. Therefore, when a user enters theroom, the inner wall 3 becomes a floor actually. The wall 2 may be madeof any material, such as metal, wood or resin. However, for easytemperature control in the room, the wall 2 is desirably a heatinsulated wall made of a heat insulating material or the like.

In order to keep the room at a predetermined temperature, an airconditioner 4 such as a cooling equipment or a heating equipment adehumidifier and a dryer are included) is installed in the room. The airconditioner 4 has a supply opening and a suction opening. Through thesuction opening, gas (e.g., air) filled in the room is drawn into theair conditioner 4. After the air conditioner 4 regulates the temperatureof the gas appropriately, the gas is blown into the room through thesupply opening. As long as an air conditioner has the mechanismmentioned above, the air conditioner may be not only the air conditioner4 fixed in the room but also an air conditioner built into the wall 2 ofthe room or arranged to the outside of the room.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, the air conditioner 4 is fixed so as to be in contactwith a wall 2 located at the −X side between two walls 2 having the YZplane from the inside of the room, and also in contact with the innerwall 3 arranged on or above a wall 2 located at the −Z side between twowalls 2 having the XY plane. Here, the supply opening of the airconditioner 4 is arranged at the lower part of the air conditioner 4 andover the entire surface of the lower part, and the gas is blown to the−Z direction. Of course, as long as the gas is allowed to flow intotubular structures described later, a position of the air conditioner 4may be changed, and a direction for blowing the gas from the supplyopening may be changed. Further, the direction for blowing the gas isable to be controlled in order that all the gas is focused to be blownfrom the supply opening efficiently into ventilation holes 9 formed onthe tubular structures which form the inner wall 3.

In the room of the building, there is a storage equipment 6 having aplurality of shelves for storing a plurality of contents 5. The contentsare preserved in the room or operated inside the room.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, there are six storage equipments 6 inside the room.That is, three of the storage equipment 6 (i.e., 6 a, 6 b, 6 c) arefixed so as to be in contact with a wall 2 located at the +Y sidebetween two walls 2 having the XZ plane from inside the room and also incontact with the inner wall 3, and three of the storage equipment 6(i.e., 6 d, 6 e, 6 f) are fixed so as to be in contact with a wall 2located at the −Y side wall 2 between the two walls 2 having the XZplane from inside the room and also in contact with the inner wall 3.

As long as the storage equipment 6 has a supply opening, a suctionopening, and a flow channel that the gas (i.e., air) flows near a shelfat the lowest position among the shelves and up to a shelf at thehighest position among the shelves from the suction opening to thesupply opening, the storage equipment 6 may have any shape or structure.According to the above-described structure of the storage equipment 6,all contents 5 stored inside the storage equipment 6 can be easilyadjusted to have a substantially constant temperature.

As to the contents 5, electronic hardware which generates heat or foodproducts which undergo deterioration at normal temperatures, aredesirably arranged in a refrigerated environment (or in a frozenenvironment). Woodworks or dried food products that are to be maintainedat a high temperature or under dry conditions are desirably arranged ina heated environment. Therefore, in the case that the contents 5 aredesirably kept in a refrigerated environment (or in a frozenenvironment), cooling equipment (or a freezer) is installed as the airconditioner 4. In the case that the contents 5 are desirably kept in aheated environment or in a dry environment, a heating equipment (or adryer) is installed as the air conditioner 4. The refrigeratedenvironment or the heated environment is desirably constant intemperature, which is appropriate for the contents 5. That is, aconstant temperature is desirably maintained.

In the case that a building is used for the contents 5 to be frequentlychanged from those that are desirably stored in a refrigeratedenvironment to those that are desirably stored in a heated environment,or from those that are desirably stored in a heated environment to thosethat are desirably stored in a refrigerated environment, an airconditioner working as a cooling equipment and also as a heatingequipment may be used, as the air conditioner 4.

Hereinafter, as one example, the contents 5 are described as electronichardware which generate heat by its operation (e.g., a battery modulemade up of a group of batteries). Thus, the air conditioner 4 will bedescribed as a cooling equipment.

The structure of the inner wall 3 of the building 1 is described withFIG. 2. FIG. 2( a) illustrates a plan view in which the XY plane of thefloor of the inner wall 3 is viewed to the −Z direction. FIG. 2( b)illustrates an XZ sectional view of the building with taken along theline A-A′. FIG. 2( c) illustrates a YZ sectional view of the buildingwith taken along the line B-B′. In addition, in any of the views of FIG.2, for an easy description of the inner wall 3, the air conditioner 4and the storage equipments 6 are not shown, but their positions wherethey are to be arranged (hereinafter, it is called as “to-be-arrangedpositions”) are indicated by a dashed line.

In addition, hereinafter, the arrows in the drawing indicate a directionof the flow of the gas from the air conditioner 4.

The inner wall 3 is configured by arranging a plurality of tubularstructures (to be described later) on the wall 2. The tubular structureis a tube-shaped structure whose cross section on the YZ plane follows asubstantially rectangular periphery without any clearance and which hasa space inside the periphery. The tubular structure is shaped byextending the cross section in the length direction (i.e., along the Xdirection). Here, as illustrated in FIG. 2( a) and FIG. 2( c), 12tubular structures 7 (7 a to 7 l),that are substantially the same shape,are laid on the floor part wall. As described above, these tubularstructures 7 are actually recognized as the floor by a user.

When the number of the storage equipments 6 arranged on one tubularstructure 7 is given as “N” (“N” is an integral number of one or more),and when the number of tubular structures 7 which can be settled intothe width of the storage equipment 6 (i.e., the width in the Ydirection), (in other words, the number of tubular structures 7 acrossthe width of the storage equipment 6 to support the storage equipment 6)is given as “n” (“n” is an integral number of one or more), a formula ofN ≦n is obtained. Therefore, here, a description will be made accordingto the assumption that the width of the storage equipment 6 is fourtimes (i.e., N=3, n=4) as large as the width of the tubular structure 7(i.e., a width in the Y direction).

As described above, in the room, three of the storage equipment 6 (i.e.,6 a, 6 b, 6 c) as a first group, are fixed so as to be in contact with awall located at the +Y side between two walls 2 having the XZ plane,from the inside of the room, and also in contact with the inner wall 3.Further, three of the storage equipment 6 (i.e., 6 d, 6 e, 6 f) as asecond group, are fixed so as to be in contact with a wall located atthe −Y side between two walls 2 having the XZ plane, from the inside ofthe room, and also in contact with the inner wall 3.

The storage equipment 6 a, 6 b, 6 c, as the first group, are fixed onthe four tubular structures 7 a, 7 b, 7 c, 7 d as a part of the innerwall 3. Each of three of them, among these four tubular structures, thatare the tubular structures 7 a, 7 b, and 7 c, has a ventilation hole 9(i.e., 9 a, 9 b, 9 c) respectively, into which the gas is blown from theair conditioner 4. Further, each of the tubular structures 7 a, 7 b, and7 c has a ventilation hole 8 (i.e., 8 a, 8 b, 8 c) respectively forblowing the gas out, that passes through its ventilation hole 9 and theinside thereof, to the storage equipment 6 a, 6 b, and 6 c correspondingto each of the ventilation hole 8. The tubular structure 7 is formed inorder that the gas in the tubular structure 7 does not leaksubstantially from the ventilation hole 9 to the ventilation hole 8. Inaddition, in order to increase the cooling effect of the first group,each of hole sealing materials 10 (i.e., 10 a, 10 b, 10 c) made of clay,resin, etc., is arranged to seal or clog the tubular structure near anend of its ventilation hole 8, which is more distant from theventilation hole 9 between two ends of its ventilation hole 8. Thesealing material 10 may be formed in a shape of a plate.

In other words, the tubular structure 7 a has a ventilation hole 9 a forblowing the gas into the tubular structure 7 a from the supply openingof the air conditioner 4, and a ventilation hole 8 a for blowing out thegas directly under the storage equipment 6 a, after the gas passesthrough the inside of the tubular structure 7 a with substantially noleakage. In the case that a part of the gas goes further from the end ofthe ventilation hole 8 a (i.e., to the +X direction) in the tubularstructure 7 a, the part is not used for cooling the storage equipment 6a effectively. Therefore, the sealing material 10 a is used to fill upand to seal or clog the inside of the tubular structure 7 a where isnear the end of the ventilation hole 8 a. According to the tubularstructure, the gas from the air conditioner 4 which has passed throughthe inside of the tubular structure 7 a is entirely and completely blowninto the storage equipment 6 a. Similarly, the tubular structure 7 b hasa ventilation hole 9 b, a ventilation hole 8 b and a sealing material 10b). Further, the tubular structure 7 c has a ventilation hole 9 c, aventilation hole 8 c and a sealing material 10 c.

Further, the storage equipment 6 d, 6 e, 6 f, as the second group, arefixed on the four tubular structures 7 i, 7 j, 7 k, 7 l as a part of theinner wall 3. Each of three of them has the same structure as the innerwall 3 corresponding to one of the first group. That is, the tubularstructure 7 j has a ventilation hole 9 j, a ventilation hole 8 j and asealing material 10 j, for cooling the storage equipment 6 f effectivelyinto focus. The tubular structure 7 k has a ventilation hole 9 k, aventilation hole 8 k and a sealing material 10 k, for cooling thestorage equipment 6 e effectively into focus. The tubular structure 7 lhas a ventilation hole 9 l, a ventilation hole 8 l and a sealingmaterial 10 l, for cooling the storage equipment 6 d effectively intofocus.

As described so far, because the building has the inner wall 3 made upof the tubular structures 7, the storage equipment 6 put in the buildingcan be cooled effectively into focus, while a user may recognize theinner wall 3 as a wall or a part of the building as one body. As aresult, it is possible to cool the content stored in the storageequipment 6 effectively into focus. The tubular structures 7 are able tosupport the storage equipment 6 or the like, although the tubularstructures 7 have an empty space continuously extended like a tube.Therefore, the building is able to reduce heat conducted from the wall 2as much as possible and to cool the content more effectively.

As described above, the tubular structures 7 are required to be made ofa material sufficiently strong so as to support the storage equipment 6or the like. However, the tubular structures 7 may be made of anymaterial such as a metal or a resin, as long as sufficient strength forsupporting the storage equipment 6 can be obtained. In the case that theheat conduction from the wall 2 is required to be decreased furtheraccording to the application of the building, it is desirable that thetubular structures 7 are made of a resin such as reinforced plasticinstead of a metal.

The tubular structure 7 may be a single tube-shaped product itself, or acombination of the single tube-shaped products molded by a resin andformed as one body. Further, for forming the inner wall 3 by using thetubular structures 7, it is possible to use both of the singletube-shaped product as one of the tubular structures 7 and thecombination as one of the tubular structures 7. In the abovedescription, each of the tubular structures 7 is substantially equal inwidth. However, the tubular structures 7 different in width may be used.

Further, it is enough that shapes of the tubular structures 7 turn upand appear when the inner wall 3 is formed. Therefore, as disclosed inPatent Documents 1 and 2, it is possible to form the tubular structures7 by putting metal plates, resin plates or wood plates on a plurality offloor rails (e.g., T-shaped rails, hat-shaped rails) arrayed andarranged in a predetermined width on the wall 2.

In the above description, the inner wall 3 formed by the tubularstructures 7 is arranged on the floor-part wall. However, the presentinvention shall not be limited to the above description. The inner wall3 may be arranged on the other wall 2, according to the shape and thearrangement of the air conditioner 4 or the storage equipment 6.Further, in order to exchange an old model as the storage equipment 6 toa new model as the storage equipment 6 easily, a plurality of the innerwalls 3 may be formed on a plurality of surfaces of the wall 2 when thebuilding is formed and before the storage equipment 6 is set in thebuilding. Still further, a to-be-arranged position is only a position atwhich the storage equipment 6 is expected to be arranged. Therefore,there may be a case that the storage equipment 6 is not actuallyarranged on the to-be-arranged position.

In addition, as the building having the inner wall 3 formed by a groupof the tubular structures 7, there may be any one of a warehouse, aship, aircraft, a train, a container and a loading space of a motorvehicle, of that a room is required for temperature control (e.g., thetemperature in the room is controlled by the air conditioner 4 at apredetermined temperature).

In the building described above, only one of the tubular structures 7 isused for cooling one of the storage equipments 6, among the plurality oftubular structures 7 across a position where one of the storageequipment 6 is arranged. However, in order to cool the storage equipment6 more effectively, it is possible to introduce the gas such as cold airto one of the storage equipments 6 not only from one tubular structure 7but from two or more tubular structures 7, among the plurality oftubular structures 7. Therefore, a modified example of the building isillustrated in FIG. 3.

In FIG. 3, the gas is introduced into one of the storage equipments 6from the plurality of tubular structures 7. The number of the tubularstructures 7, which introduce the gas into each of the plurality of thestorage equipments 6, is the same number for each of the storageequipments 6, in order to cool the storage equipments 6 equally witheach other. However, in the case that one of the tubular structures 7has a plurality of the ventilation holes 8 each of that is for coolingeach of the storage equipments 6 respectively, the efficiency forcooling the contents in the storage equipment 6 might be worse.Therefore, in the modified example, the tubular structure 7 has only oneventilation hole 8 for blowing out the air, that comes from itsventilation hole 8 and that go through its inside with substantially noleakage.

In the case that the air conditioner 4 has a superlative ability to blowthe air or a superlative ability to cool the air, one of the tubularstructures 7 may have a plurality of ventilation holes 8 each of that isfor blowing the air into about two of the storage equipment 6. In thiscase, the gas blown into the tubular structure 7 from the airconditioner 4 is divided and dispersed to the plurality of ventilationholes 8. However, the gas blown out through each of the plurality of theventilation holes 8 on one tubular structure 7 is greatly changed in theflow rate and in the velocity for blowing with an increase in the numberof the ventilation holes 8, and it becomes difficult to cool each of thestorage equipments 6 equally. Therefore, a large number of theventilation holes 8 should not be formed on one of the tubular structure7 for blowing the gas out of the tubular structure 7.

Hereinafter, a description will be made in detail for the modifiedexample with reference to FIG. 3. When the orthogonal coordinates inFIG. 1 are used, FIG. 3( a) illustrates a XY plane of the floor which isviewed to the −Z direction, FIG. 3( b) illustrates an XZ sectional viewof a building with taken along the line C-C′, and FIG. 3( c) illustratesa YZ sectional view of the building with taken along the line D-D′. InFIG. 3, the same components as those in FIGS. 1 and 2 will be given thesame reference numerals, with the description being omitted here.Further, for easy understanding about FIG. 3( a), the dashed line of thestorage equipment 6 a, 6 b, 6 e in FIG. 2( a) is not illustrated.However, these storage equipments 6 are still arranged in the building.

In FIG. 3, when the number of the storage equipments 6 arranged on onetubular structure 7 is given as “N” (i.e., “N” is an integral number ofone or more) and when the number of the tubular structures 7 which canbe settled or fitted in the width of the storage equipment 6 (in otherwords, the number of tubular structures 7 across the width of thestorage equipment 6 to support the storage equipment 6) is given as “n”“n” is an integral number of one or more), a formula of N≦ n isobtained. Further, “(2×N−n)” of the tubular structures 7 are needed inaddition to the tubular structures 7 for being set under the storageequipments 6 and for supporting these storage equipments 6.

Therefore, in order to cool three storage equipments (i.e., the storageequipment 6 a, 6 b, 6 c) as the first group, six tubular structures 7 ato 7 f are used. The tubular structures 7 a to 7 c are the same as inFIG. 2.

The first group in FIG. 3 is different from in FIG. 2 in points, thatthe tubular structure 7 d, which supports the storage equipment 6 a, 6b, 6 c just like the tubular structures 7 a to 7 c, is also used forblowing the gas into these storage equipments 6, and that the tubularstructure 7 d has ventilation holes 8 d-1, 8 d-2, 8 d-3 each of that isfor blowing the gas into the corresponding one of three storageequipment 6 a, 6 b, 6 c.

First, the tubular structure 7 d has a ventilation hole 9 d, aventilation hole 8 d-1 and a sealing material 10 d-1, similar to thetubular structure 7 c. Therefore, the storage equipment 6 c is cooled bythe gas blown from the ventilation hole 8 c, which comes from theventilation hole 9 c of the tubular structure 7 c and goes through theinside of the tubular structure 7 c with substantially no leakage, andalso by the gas blown from the ventilation hole 8 d-1, which comes fromthe ventilation hole 9 d of the tubular structure 7 d and goes throughthe inside of the tubular structure 7 d with substantially no leakage.

The tubular structure 7 d also has a ventilation hole 8 d-2, which isthe same size as the ventilation hole 8 b and which is arranged at thesame position in the tubular structure 7 d as the position of theventilation hole 8 b in the tubular structure 7 b, and a sealingmaterial 10 d-3, which is the same material as the sealing material 10 band which is arranged at the same position in the tubular structure 7 das the position of the sealing material 10 b in the tubular structure 7b, at a position where the storage equipment 6 b is to be arranged.

Then, in order to guide the gas blown out by the air conditioner 4 tothe ventilation hole 8 d-2 from the tubular structure 7 e arrangedadjacent to the tubular structure 7 d, the tubular structure 7 e has aventilation hole 9 e, which is the same size as the ventilation hole 9 dand which is arranged at the same position in the tubular structure 7 eas the position of the ventilation hole 9 d in the tubular structure 7d, and a sealing material 10 e-1, which is the same material as thesealing material 10 d-3 and which is arranged at the same position inthe tubular structure 7 e as the position of the sealing material 10 d-3in the tubular structure 7 d.

Further, a part of walls of the tubular structure 7 d and a part ofwalls of the tubular structure 7 e near the ventilation hole 8 d-2 arepassed through each other to the Y direction, although the walls becomea border between the tubular structures 7 d and 7 e. Therefore, thestorage equipment 6 b is cooled by the gas blown from the ventilationhole 8 b, which comes from the ventilation hole 9 b of the tubularstructure 7 b and goes through the inside of the tubular structure 7 bwith substantially no leakage, and also by the gas blown from theventilation hole 8 d-2 of the tubular structure 7 d, which comes fromthe ventilation hole 9 e of the tubular structure 7 e and goes throughthe inside of the tubular structure 7 e with substantially no leakage.

At this time, in the case that the ventilation hole 8 d-2 is distantfrom the sealing material 10 d-1 in the tubular structure 7 d, it isdesirable that the sealing material 10 d-2 is arranged at a positionadjacent to the ventilation hole 8 d-2 to sandwich the ventilation hole8 d-2 with the sealing materials 10 d-2 and 10 d-3 and to seal or clogthe inside of the tubular structure 7 d at the position, in order toincrease the effect for cooling the storage equipment.

Further, the tubular structure 7 d has a ventilation hole 8 d-3, whichis the same size as the ventilation hole 8 a and which is arranged atthe same position in the tubular structure 7 d to the position of theventilation hole 8 a in the tubular structure 7 a, and a sealingmaterial 10 d-5, which is the same material as the sealing material 10 aand which is arranged at the same position in the tubular structure 7 das the position of the sealing material 10 a in the tubular structure 7a, at a position where the storage equipment 6 a is to be arranged.

Then, in order to guide the gas blown by the air conditioner 4 into theventilation hole 8 d-3 from the tubular structure 7 f, which is arrangedat next to a tubular structure located next to the tubular structure 7d, the tubular structure 7 f has a ventilation hole 9 f, which is thesame size as the ventilation hole 9 d of the tubular structure 7 d andwhich is arranged at the same position in the tubular structure 7 f asthe position of the ventilation hole 9 d in the tubular structure 7 d.Further, a part of walls of the tubular structure 7 d, a part of wallsof the tubular structure 7 f, and a part of walls of the tubularstructure 7 e arranged between the tubular structures 7 d and 7 f, nearthe ventilation hole 8 d-3, are passed through each other to the Ydirection, although the walls become borders among the tubularstructures 7 d, 7 e, and 7 f.

Among the ends around the part passed through (i.e., the ends of athrough-hole), near the end closest to the +X direction, a sealingmaterial 10 e-3 is arranged and filled to sealing or clogging, which isthe same material as the sealing materials in the tubular structure 7 e.Further, near the end closest to the +X direction, a sealing material 10f is arranged and filled for sealing or clogging, which is the samematerial as the sealing material 10 a and which is arranged at the sameposition in the tubular structure 7 f as the position of the sealingmaterial 10 e-3 in the tubular structure 7 e, at a position where thestorage equipment 6 a is to be arranged.

Therefore, the storage equipment 6 a is cooled by the gas blown from theventilation hole 8 a, which comes from the ventilation hole 9 a of thetubular structure 7 a and goes through the inside of the tubularstructure 7 a, and also by the gas blown from the ventilation hole 8 d-3of the tubular structure 7 d, which comes from the ventilation hole 9 fof the tubular structure 7 f and goes through the inside of the tubularstructure 7 f and the through-hole.

At this time, in the case that the ventilation hole 8 d-3 is distantfrom the sealing material 10 d-3 in the tubular structure 7 d, it isdesirable that the sealing material 10 d-4 is arranged at a positionadjacent to the ventilation hole 8 d-3 to sandwich the ventilation hole8 d-3 with the sealing materials 10 d-4 and 10 d-5 and to seal or clogthe inside of the tubular structure 7 d, and that the sealing material10 e-2 is arranged at the same position in the tubular structure 7 e asthe position of the sealing material 10 d-4 in the tubular structure 7 dto seal or clog the inside of the tubular structure 7 e.

Three storage equipments 6 d, 6 e, 6 f as the second group are fixed onthe four tubular structures 7 i, 7 j, 7 k, 7 l which becomes a part ofthe inner wall 3. Then, three of these four tubular structures 7 havethe inner wall 3, as described in the first group. That is, in FIG. 3(a), each parts illustrated in FIG. 3 including parts passing through thetubular walls have line symmetry about the border formed by the tubularstructure 7 f and the tubular structure 7 g.

Therefore, regarding the arrangement and the configuration of theseparts, the ventilation hole 9 f and the sealing material 10 f of thetubular structure 7 f correspond respectively to the ventilation hole 9g and the sealing material 10 g of the tubular structure 7 g. Theventilation hole 9 e and the sealing materials 10 e-1 to 10 e-3 of thetubular structure 7 e correspond respectively to the ventilation hole 9h and the sealing materials 10 h-1 to 10 h-3 of the tubular structure 7h. The ventilation hole 9 d, the ventilation holes 8 d-1 to 8 d-3 andthe sealing materials 10 d-1 to 10 d-5 of the tubular structure 7 dcorrespond respectively to the ventilation hole 9 i, the ventilationholes 8 i-1 to 8 i-3 and the sealing materials 10 i-1 to 10 i-5 of thetubular structure 7 i.

Therefore, the storage equipment 6 f is cooled by the gas blown from theventilation hole 8 j, which comes from the ventilation hole 9 j of thetubular structure 7 j and goes through the inside of the tubularstructure 7 j with substantially no leakage, and also by the gas blownfrom the ventilation hole 8 i-1, which comes from the ventilation hole 9i of the tubular structure 7 i and goes through the inside of thetubular structure 7 i with substantially no leakage along the way.

Further, the storage equipment 6 e is cooled by the gas blown from theventilation hole 8 k, which comes from the ventilation hole 9 k of thetubular structure 7 k and goes through the inside of the tubularstructure 7 k with substantially no leakage, and also by the gas blownfrom the ventilation hole 8 i-2 of the tubular structure 7 i, whichcomes from the ventilation hole 9 h of the tubular structure 7 h andgoes through the inside of the tubular structure 7 h with substantiallyno leakage.

Still further, the storage equipment 6 d is cooled by the gas blown fromthe ventilation hole 8 l, which comes from the ventilation hole 9 l ofthe tubular structure 7 l and goes through the inside of the tubularstructure 7 l with substantially no leakage, and also by the gas blownfrom the ventilation hole 8 i-3 of the tubular structure 7 i, whichcomes from the ventilation hole 9 g of the tubular structure 7 g andgoes through the inside of the tubular structure 7 g and a through-holecorresponding to the through-hole mentioned above, with substantially noleakage.

SECOND EMBODIMENT

FIG. 4 illustrates an inner wall structure of the building in the secondembodiment. FIG. 4( a) illustrates the XY plane of the floor of thebuilding which is viewed to the −Z direction. FIG. 4( b) illustrates anXZ sectional view of the building with taken along the line E-E′ of thebuilding. FIG. 4( c) illustrates a YZ sectional view of the buildingwith taken along the line F-F′ of the building. Because the schematicview of the building is similar to that of FIG. 1, a description will bemade by using the same coordinates. Further, the same components asthose of the building of the first embodiment will be given the samereference numerals, with the description being omitted here. Stillfurther, the sealing material used in FIG. 4 may be made of a materialsimilar to that used in the first embodiment.

The building of the second embodiment is substantially different fromthat of the first embodiment at a point that the tubular structures 7are stacked in the Z direction, one of that forms the inner wall 3.Because the first group is similar to the second group in theconfiguration of the second embodiment, three storage equipment 6 d, 6d, 6 f as the second group are described as typical examples.

The three storage equipment 6 d, 6 e, 6 f as the second group are fixedon three tubular structures 7 m, 7 n, and 7 o. More specifically, thetubular structure 7 o is arranged on the floor part wall 2, the tubularstructure 7 n is arranged on the tubular structure 7 o, the tubularstructure 7 m is arranged on the tubular structure 7 n. The tubularstructure 7 m has a surface of the inner wall 3. Also, the three storageequipment 6 d, 6 e, 6 f are to be arranged on the tubular structure 7 m.

As described above, although the three tubular structures 7 m, 7 n, 7 oare stacked (i.e., each of the group is called as a stack-type, and aninner wall formed by the group is called as a stack-type inner wall), apoint that the gas blown into one tubular structure 7 from the airconditioner 4 is guided to one storage equipment 6 with no leakage, isthe same as the first embodiment and the modified example.

Also, when the number of the storage equipments 6 arranged on onetubular structure 7 is given as “N” (i.e., “N” is an integral number ofone or more) and when the number of tubular structures 7 arranged andsettled into the width of the storage equipment 6 (i.e., in other words,the number of tubular structures 7 across the width of the storageequipment 6 to support the storage equipment 6) is given as “n” (i.e.,“n” is an integral number of one or more), a formula of N≦n is obtained,that is the same as in the first embodiment and the modified example.Thus, in FIG. 4, the three tubular structures 7 m, 7 n, 7 o are arrangedunder each of the three storage equipment 6 d, 6 e, 6 f, as one example,in order that the above formula is satisfied.

Next, a description will be made in detail for a stack-type inner wall 3formed by the group of the three tubular structures 7 m, 7 n, and 7 o.First, in order that gas blown from the air conditioner 4 is blown intoeach of the three tubular structures 7, there are a ventilation hole 9 mformed on the tubular structure 7 m, a ventilation hole 9 n which is thesame arrangement and the same shape and size as the ventilation hole 9 mon the XY plane and which passes through walls of the tubular structures7 m and 7 n for forming a border between the tubular structure 7 m andthe tubular structure 7 n in the Z direction, and a ventilation hole 9 owhich is the same arrangement and the same shape and size on the XYplane as the ventilation hole 9 n and which passes through walls of thetubular structures 7 n and 7 o for forming a border between the tubularstructure 7 n and the tubular structure 7 o in the Z direction.

The tubular structure 7 m also has a ventilation hole 8 m-1 for blowingthe gas out directly under the storage equipment 6 f, although the gascomes from the ventilation hole 9 m and passes the inside of the tubularstructure 7 m with substantially no leakage. Because it is not effectivefor cooling the storage equipment 6 f that the gas is guided furtherahead of the ventilation hole 8 m-1 (i.e., to the +X direction).Therefore, the sealing material 10 m is used to seal and clog thetubular structure 7 m at a position near a side located at the +Xdirection between two sides in the X direction of the ventilation hole 8m-1. According to the tubular structure 7 m, the gas from the airconditioner 4, which passes through the tubular structure 7 m, isentirely blown into the storage equipment 6 f.

Further, the tubular structure 7 m has a ventilation hole 8 m-2 forblowing the gas out directly under the storage equipment 6 e, althoughthe gas comes from the ventilation hole 9 n and passes the inside of thetubular structure 7 n with substantially no leakage. And the tubularstructure 7 m has a ventilation hole 8 n-1 which is the same arrangementand the same shape and size on the XY plane as the ventilation hole 8m-2 and which passes through walls of the tubular structures 7 m and 7 nfor forming a border between the tubular structure 7 m and the tubularstructure 7 n in the Z direction.

Because it is not effective for cooling the storage equipment 6 e thatthe gas is guided further ahead of the ventilation hole 8 n-1 (i.e., tothe +X direction), the sealing material 10 n is used to seal or clog thetubular structures 7 m, 7 n at a position near a side located at the +Xdirection between two sides in the X direction of the ventilation hole 8n-1. Therefore, the gas from the air conditioner 4, which passes throughthe tubular structure 7 n, is entirely blown into the storage equipment6 e.

Still further, the tubular structure 7 m has a ventilation hole 8 m-3for blowing the gas out directly under the storage equipment 6 d,although the gas comes from the ventilation hole 9 o and passes theinside of the tubular structure 7 o with substantially no leakage. Andthe tubular structure 7 m has a ventilation hole 8 n-2, which is thesame arrangement and the same shape and size on the XY plane as theventilation hole 8 m-2 and which passes through walls of the tubularstructures 7 m and 7 n for forming a border between the tubularstructure 7 m and the tubular structure 7 n in the Z direction. Thetubular structure 7 m also has a ventilation hole 8 o, which is the samearrangement and the same shape and size on the XY plane as theventilation hole 8 n-2 and which passes through walls of the tubularstructures 7 n and 7 o for forming a border between the tubularstructure 7 n and the tubular structure 7 o in the Z direction.

It is not effective for cooling the storage equipment 6 d that the gasis guided further ahead of the ventilation hole 8 o (i.e., to the +Xdirection), the sealing material 10 o is used to seal and clog thetubular structures 7 m to 7 o at a position near a side located at the+X direction between two sides in the X direction of the ventilationhole 8 o. Therefore, the gas from the air conditioner 4, which passesthrough the tubular structure 7 o, is entirely blown into the storageequipment 6 d.

At this time, in the case that the ventilation hole 8 m-2 is distantfrom the sealing material 10 m in the tubular structure 7 m, it isdesirable that the sealing material 10 m-1 is arranged at a positionadjacent to the ventilation hole 8 m-2 to sandwich the ventilation hole8 m-2 with the sealing materials 10 n and 10 m-1 and to seal or clog theinside of the tubular structure 7 m, in order to cool the storageequipment effectively.

Further, similarly, in the case that the ventilation hole 8 m-3 isdistant from the sealing material 10 n in the tubular structure 7 m, itis desirable that the sealing material 10 n-1 is arranged at a positionadjacent to the ventilation hole 8 m-2 to sandwich the ventilation hole8 m-3 with the sealing materials 10 o and 10 n-1 and to seal or clog theinside of the tubular structures 7 m, 7 n, in order to cool the storageequipment effectively.

As described above, according to the building disclosed in the first andthe second embodiments as well as in the modified example, the innerwall of the building is configured by arranging a plurality of tubularstructures. Therefore, although the inner wall is a part of thebuilding, the gas blown from the air conditioner 4 is guided and focusedeffectively to the contents 5 stored in the storage equipment 6.Therefore, the contents are cooled effectively.

The present invention shall not be limited to the above-describedembodiments or the modified example but may be modified in various wayswithin a scope not departing from the gist of the present invention.

For example, a description has been made for the gas blown from the airconditioner is cold air but the gas may be hot air depending on thecontents 5. Further, the gas is not limited to air but may be, forexample, inert gas, depending on the contents. A fire extinguisher (notshown) is additionally mounted on the air conditioner 4, and uponignition of the contents 5, fire extinguishing gas is ejected from thefire extinguisher and blown from the air conditioner 4 to the tubularstructures. Thereby, the extinguishing gas can be guided to the storageequipment 6 in a concentrated manner to extinguish a fire effectively.

Further, the inner wall is arranged on the floor part wall 2. However,the inner wall may be arranged on the surface of the other wall 2,whenever necessary, depending on an arranged position of the airconditioner 4 and an arranged position of the storage equipment 6.

DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS

1: Building

2: Wall

3: Inner wall

4: Air conditioner

5: Contents

6 (6 a˜6 f): Storage equipment

7 (7 a˜7 o): Tubular structure

8 (8 a, 8 b, 8 c, 8 d, 8 i, 8 j, 8 k, 8 l, 8 m, 8 n, 8 o): Ventilationhole for storage equipment

9 (9 a˜9 o): Ventilation hole for air conditioner

10 (10 a˜10 o): Sealing material

1. A building comprising; a wall making a boundary of a room; an innerwall formed by a group including a first tubular structure and a secondtubular structure and arranged on the wall as one body; and an airconditioner arranged in the room; wherein the first tubular structurehas a first ventilation hole, where gas blown into the first tubularstructure from the air conditioner and passed through the first tubularstructure with substantially no leakage is blown out, at ato-be-arranged position of a first storage equipment which is to bearranged in the room, and wherein the second tubular structure has asecond ventilation hole, where the gas blown into the second tubularstructure from the air conditioner and passed through the second tubularstructure with substantially no leakage is blown out, at ato-be-arranged position of a second storage equipment which is to bearranged in the room.
 2. The building according to claim 1, wherein thegroup for the inner wall further includes a third tubular structure anda fourth tubular structure, the third tubular structure has a thirdventilation hole at a to-be-arranged position of the first storageequipment, the fourth tubular structure is arranged outside theto-be-arranged position of the first storage equipment. and the gasblown into the fourth tubular structure from the air conditioner isblown out from the third ventilation hole, with substantially noleakage.
 3. The building according to claim 1, wherein the first tubularstructure and the second tubular structure are arranged to be stacked,the first tubular structure has a fourth ventilation hole formed at ato-be-arranged position of the second storage equipment and a sealingmaterial sealing a space between the first ventilation hole and thefourth ventilation hole, and the gas blown into the second tubularstructure from the air conditioner is blown out from the fourthventilation hole through the second ventilation hole, with substantiallyno leakage.
 4. The building according to any one of claim 1 to claim 3,wherein the air conditioner is used for cooling or heating of the room.5. The building according to claim 4, wherein the inner wall is arrangedon a floor part of the wall.
 6. The building according to claim 5,wherein the first tubular structure and the second tubular structure areformed by using a plurality of floor rails.
 7. The building according toclaim 6, wherein the building is any one of a ship, aircraft, a train, awarehouse, a container and a loading space of motor vehicle.